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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

    Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

    I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

    The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Provide a changelog for Scale releases

    Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

    Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.

    Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

    We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

    Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES NFS - health event if FD hard limit is above the threshold

    Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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